"Dilettante" is a word that may have been coined to describe Stew's and my knowledge of opera, which is about a yard wide and a sixteenth-of-an-inch deep. Yes, we're familiar with the one about the bullfighter and the cigar maker; and the other one about Egyptians and Ethiopians. But that's pretty much it.But thanks to …
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The Met ought to compensate the victims of Jimmy's indiscretions
When the pedophilia scandal first enveloped the Catholic Church, its first line of defense was denial or trying to distance the institution from the predator priests. Church officials lied about the problem or blamed it on isolated miscreants.Then it commissioned a study that among other things suggested the incidence of pedophilia and homosexuality in the …
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Tacos with your Tosca?
One of the happiest developments around these parts recently, aside from the nearly six inches of rain that we received over the past week, has been the appearance of the Metropolitan Opera of New York's high-definition simulcasts at a theater in Querétaro, a booming city about forty-five minutes from the ranch. No, you don't experience the …
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